Category Archives: thoughts

blind insensitivity

There is a lady who gets the 17:37 from Basingstoke to Reading. Well clearly there are many, but this particular lady has a guide dog called Hugo. Hugo is mostly a solid, dependable character, but tends to be a bit skittish with loud noises, so the first time I encountered him and his owner, was [...]

Do I look incapable?

I realise that some clarification is needed here: I’ve already expressed sympathy for the individual telesales operator at the other end of the telephone, attempting to beguile me with their wares. I still maintain this position; it can’t be an easy job, and is one that is met mostly with resentment and intolerance.
I’m afraid that [...]

I slept!

Thank the heavens for that. Okay, so I got woken up at 3am by something or other. It might have been the fierce wind. I then realised that I couldn’t breathe very well and failed to return to sleep, but as I’d gone to bed at 9pm and drifted off to sleep almost immediately, this [...]

Hello mumkin..

Miss you..

Into the arms of hypnos..

I wish. For almost a week now I have been unable to switch my brain off at night, and have found myself spending hour after hour designing the new database that is required at work. Don’t misunderstand me here, there is no-one jumping up and down for this new system, so there is no actual [...]